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James Webb Telescope Detects Potential Gas Giant Exoplanet Just 4 Light-Years Away
New observational evidence from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which has yet to launch, may change that. JWST astronomers
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Scientists Explore Role of Space Radiation in Powering Alien Microbial Life
The search for alien life traditionally focuses on planets in the “Goldilocks zone” — the orbital band where surface water
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Massive 200-Light-Year Cloud May Be Channeling Matter to the Milky Way’s Core
Astronomers have found a vast, never-before-noticed reservoir of stellar material, hundreds of light-years across, lurking in a cold, dark, starless
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PSR J0922+0638 Pulsar Keeps Glitching Every 550 Days, Scientists Are Intrigued
PSR J0922+0638 is one of the pulsars, which are typically ultradense remains of a massive star that exploded as a
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Doomed Exoplanet TOI-2109b Spirals Toward Its Star with Three Possible Fates
The gas giant TOI-2109b is more than five times as massive as Jupiter, and resides in a perilous orbit 870
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Gravitational Waves Reveal Most Massive Black Hole Merger Ever Observed
Delivering a fresh jolt to a field recently rocked by controversy, astrophysicists have discovered the most massive collision yet of
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New Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Could Reveal Secrets of Distant Worlds
The entry of a third known object into our solar system has been confirmed on July 1, 2025 by the
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Climate Satellite MethaneSAT Fails After Just One Year in Orbit
One of the world’s most advanced satellites for detecting methane and other gases that contribute to the warming of the
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Fast Radio Bursts Reveal Universe’s Missing Matter Hidden in Cosmic Intergalactic Fog
Astronomers have at last found the universe’s missing ordinary matter, the particles that formed in the first few minutes after
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Apollo Astronauts Found Orange Glass Beads on the Moon, Scientists Now Know Why
When Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, preparing to face a lifeless wasteland, they were taken aback to find the surface